Nappy Roots came into hip-hop at the perfect time. It was the late ’90s and if you were in a Southern hip-hop crew, it was almost impossible to get radio play outside of the South, with mixtapes being the primary outlet most groups had to get their sound out. Then, in the early 2000s, artists […]
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thursday 23 Tango Alpha Tango MUSIC—Portland’s Tango Alpha Tango is a winning combination of blues, twang, distortion, sexy guitar solos and group jams that are just long enough, not Phish long, but still grove-worthy. The icing on the cake is well-written lyrics and the band’s lovely female bassist, Mirabai Trueb, who serves as the soulfully […]
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Country boys rise from Southern origins to national fame
When Nappy Roots hit peak popularity in 2002, gas cost $1.67 a gallon. George W. Bush was in his second year of office. That same year, he had a choking incident with a pretzel. Nickelback, Avril Lavigne, P!nk and Ja Rule topped Billboard’s pop charts and Nappy Roots, a Southern-fried hip-hop crew following in the […]